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Marcy RosenbaumLivelihood,Career,PathsBusiness/Management & MarketingLivelihood,Career,Pathslivelihoodshowhttps://feedburner.google.comPaul Tieger Shows Us How to ‘Do What You Are’http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/livelihoodshow/~3/0Ao9IH9z01c/
http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/paul-tieger-shows-us/#respondMon, 07 Aug 2017 08:20:10 +0000Marcy Rosenbaumhttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/?p=1678How do you make your Livelihood decisions? It’s a decision that affects everything in our future, not just how we spend 50 weeks a year, but often the neighborhood in which we choose to live, how much money we’ll get to make and who our friends are going to be. Career planning is often delegated […]

How do you make your Livelihood decisions? It’s a decision that affects everything in our future, not just how we spend 50 weeks a year, but often the neighborhood in which we choose to live, how much money we’ll get to make and who our friends are going to be.

Career planning is often delegated to guidance counselor offices and other resources, and we are limited to choosing from what they have to offer.

]]>http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/paul-tieger-shows-us/feed/0How do you make your Livelihood decisions? It’s a decision that affects everything in our future, not just how we spend 50 weeks a year, but often the neighborhood in which we choose to live, how much money we’ll get to make and who our friends are goi...How do you make your Livelihood decisions? It’s a decision that affects everything in our future, not just how we spend 50 weeks a year, but often the neighborhood in which we choose to live, how much money we’ll get to make and who our friends are going to be. Career planning is often delegated […]Marcy Rosenbaumclean49:56Livelihood,Career,Pathshttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/paul-tieger-shows-us/Vicente Fernandez: An Unexpected Version of a Family Businesshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/livelihoodshow/~3/9z6kQFrw9qk/
http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/vicente-fernandez-an-unexpected-version-of-a-family-business/#respondMon, 31 Jul 2017 08:00:23 +0000Marcy Rosenbaumhttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/?p=1965Vicente Fernandez loves sports: playing them, watching them, and writing about them. He’s also a young entrepreneur whose mastery of social media technology gives him an insight into an untapped opportunity for sports reporting: he created SportsManias, as a Twitter-based content aggregator that provides up-to-the-minute sports news and reporting . The concept was to create […]

Vicente Fernandez loves sports: playing them, watching them, and writing about them. He’s also a young entrepreneur whose mastery of social media technology gives him an insight into an untapped opportunity for sports reporting: he created SportsManias, as a Twitter-based content aggregator that provides up-to-the-minute sports news and reporting . The concept was to create a “one-stop shop” for the diehard sports fan that would be continually updated, rather than daily or weekly like a newspaper. “It’s kind of like a Huffington Post for sports,” he says, providing a broader distribution for writers from local papers and local teams. On this week’s “Inside The Entrepreneurial Mind” on ENTREPRENEURradio.org, Vicente Fernandez describes the challenges of designing, financing and scaling a social media sports news outlet.

Vicente founded SportsManias when he was eighteen, and he had an unexpected co-founder – his mother, Aymara del Aguila . Her idea was to create a platform for diehard fans. “We kept talking about it,” he says in his interview with ENTREPRENEURradio. “I really got to thinking about what was out there in the market and what wasn’t out there, and where we could fill a hole.” Many people wondered if the decision to partner with his mother would create an additional level of stress for the venture. But for both of them, their relationship is a unique competitive advantage. “We’re able to be very transparent with one another due to our closeness.” No matter what they disagree on, he explains, they’re able to reconcile and compromise, because at the end of the day, they’re mother and son, and “that relationship is never going to break.”

Vicente and his mother are working together to build an enterprise that combined their individual skill sets and are redefining the sports media industry. For more on Vicente’s story, listen to his featured episode of “Inside The Entrepreneurial Mind,” streaming now on ENTREPRENEURradio.org.

]]>http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/vicente-fernandez-an-unexpected-version-of-a-family-business/feed/0Vicente Fernandez loves sports: playing them, watching them, and writing about them. He’s also a young entrepreneur whose mastery of social media technology gives him an insight into an untapped opportunity for sports reporting: he created SportsManias...Vicente Fernandez loves sports: playing them, watching them, and writing about them. He’s also a young entrepreneur whose mastery of social media technology gives him an insight into an untapped opportunity for sports reporting: he created SportsManias, as a Twitter-based content aggregator that provides up-to-the-minute sports news and reporting . The concept was to create […]Marcy Rosenbaumclean24:55Livelihood,Career,Pathshttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/vicente-fernandez-an-unexpected-version-of-a-family-business/“When Someone’s in the Kitchen – It’s Dyna!”Allen Brackethttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/livelihoodshow/~3/sc-PFoovmhQ/
http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/1978/#respondMon, 24 Jul 2017 03:50:58 +0000Marcy Rosenbaumhttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/?p=1978Allen Bracket, CEO of House 2 Home, built the foundation for his successful company 30 years ago. On a bet that it required financial capital to build a business, he founded a housecleaning company by volunteering to clean houses as a research project while studying business at George Washington University. He learned to clean houses, […]

Allen Bracket, CEO of House 2 Home, built the foundation for his successful company 30 years ago. On a bet that it required financial capital to build a business, he founded a housecleaning company by volunteering to clean houses as a research project while studying business at George Washington University. He learned to clean houses, and what homeowners wanted from housekeepers.

With Dyna-Maids, Inc., he disrupted another model: the stigma associated with workers performing residential housekeeping and commercial janitorial services and by redefining the roles men and women perform in the cleaning fields.

He removed the gender bias associated with each respective industry by creating a workforce equally representing men and women, then creating a niche market by combining janitorial services and maid service into a unified commercial/residential housekeeping service with broad recognition for quality, consistency, and integrity. Over the next 30 years, his company, Dyna-Maids, Inc. grew from that single location to multiple locations from Boston to South Florida

In recent years he extended the brand to include Dyna Handyman Services. During the real estate downturn, he established Vacant Home Solutions, offering total home care services for a vacant home to help them maintain their value and accelerate their sales by offering to banks, realtors and property management companies services including moving services, staging, including home repair. He also was quick to see the trend in the desire to age-in-place, and brought in resources in renovation/construction services to so that people with physical disabilities—including a generation of wounded warriors- could realize the dream of living at home.

Allen Brackett is an entrepreneur who sees opportunities in social trends and brings together partnerships with resources to create an integrated solution. He is a social entrepreneur, who utilizes the tools of the business, management, operations and marketing to create a profitable company that also serves its employees and their communities.

]]>http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/1978/feed/0Allen Bracket, CEO of House 2 Home, built the foundation for his successful company 30 years ago. On a bet that it required financial capital to build a business, he founded a housecleaning company by volunteering to clean houses as a research project ...Allen Bracket, CEO of House 2 Home, built the foundation for his successful company 30 years ago. On a bet that it required financial capital to build a business, he founded a housecleaning company by volunteering to clean houses as a research project while studying business at George Washington University. He learned to clean houses, […]Marcy Rosenbaumclean26:03Livelihood,Career,Pathshttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/1978/Victoria Cerrone with Ports of Causehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/livelihoodshow/~3/hn2rS9iAZSQ/
http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/victoria-cerrone-ports-cause/#respondMon, 17 Jul 2017 08:00:54 +0000Marcy Rosenbaumhttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/?p=1654When most people think of sustainable or “green” design, we imagine solar energy and rain water harvesting. We usually don’t think of mega-yachts and Monte Carlo –yet there is a natural and unexplored opportunity. Victoria Cerrone is co-founder of Ports of Cause, a not-for-profit organization which leverages the power and reach of the yachting industry […]

]]>When most people think of sustainable or “green” design, we imagine solar energy and rain water harvesting. We usually don’t think of mega-yachts and Monte Carlo –yet there is a natural and unexplored opportunity.

Victoria Cerrone is co-founder of Ports of Cause, a not-for-profit organization which leverages the power and reach of the yachting industry to champion ocean advocacy and promote sustainable luxury. Their mission is to unify and motivate the yachting industry under the “SMART YACHTING” initiative which drives a global awareness, education and innovation campaign around clean oceans and sustainability.

An attorney by training, she shifted away from the world of litigation, and built a portfolio of expertise in leading and advising business start-ups in the luxury brand market, and the art and cultural industries. In 2012, as a participant in Startup Weekend Orlando 2012, Victoria and her team came in 2nd place out of 44 with their idea for an online platform for artists to engage buyers, showcase and sell their work.

Today, she describes her role as creative strategist—the art of finding the shared interests among different but complementary worlds. The glittery world of megayachts; the urgency of ocean environment sustainability. Together: smarter yachts; cleaner oceans, an unexpected alliance that gives Victoria Cerrone a most remarkable work environment.

]]>http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/victoria-cerrone-ports-cause/feed/0When most people think of sustainable or “green” design, we imagine solar energy and rain water harvesting. We usually don’t think of mega-yachts and Monte Carlo –yet there is a natural and unexplored opportunity.When most people think of sustainable or “green” design, we imagine solar energy and rain water harvesting. We usually don’t think of mega-yachts and Monte Carlo –yet there is a natural and unexplored opportunity. Victoria Cerrone is co-founder of Ports of Cause, a not-for-profit organization which leverages the power and reach of the yachting industry […]Marcy RosenbaumcleanLivelihood,Career,Pathshttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/victoria-cerrone-ports-cause/Livelihood Welcomes Michael Grimme: Pivot and Opportuniy Masterhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/livelihoodshow/~3/ziGni9MYFEw/
http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/livelihood-welcomes-michael-grimme-pivot-opportuniy-master/#respondMon, 10 Jul 2017 07:45:07 +0000Marcy Rosenbaumhttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/?p=1780Eighteen years ago, Michael Grimmé returned from Europe, where he had been working in the oil trading industry. He relocated his family to Ft. Lauderdale, where he bought and ran a chain of boutique hotels. With the dramatic freeze in the tourism industry after the events of September 11, 2001. Michael had to reassess his […]

Eighteen years ago, Michael Grimmé returned from Europe, where he had been working in the oil trading industry. He relocated his family to Ft. Lauderdale, where he bought and ran a chain of boutique hotels. With the dramatic freeze in the tourism industry after the events of September 11, 2001. Michael had to reassess his assumptions about the hotel industry in an inventive way, and embraced the opportunity for change. The economic downturn, Michael realized, triggered hotels and resorts to sell excess stock and furniture as a source of revenue. In the midst of this economic crisis, he reassessed his business strategy and pivoted into a new market: furniture liquidation.

Michael created AMC Liquidators, a company that buys and sells pre-owned furnishings in bulk from hotels, resorts and other business. Today, AMC is one of the country’s premier liquidation companies, acclaimed for its professionalism and accountability. Michael and his team were featured on the Travel Channel in the show “Hotel Impossible.” Michael’s sense of accountability is reflected in the company motto: “Do what you said you would do, as you said you would do it, when you said you would do it. Period.”

Sometimes an unexpected problem can point the way to a rewarding solution. How can you embrace changes and economic shifts and turn them into opportunities? Check out our podcast for the full conversation with the versatile Michael Grimmé.

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]]>http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/livelihood-welcomes-michael-grimme-pivot-opportuniy-master/feed/0Eighteen years ago, Michael Grimmé returned from Europe, where he had been working in the oil trading industry. He relocated his family to Ft. Lauderdale, where he bought and ran a chain of boutique hotels.Eighteen years ago, Michael Grimmé returned from Europe, where he had been working in the oil trading industry. He relocated his family to Ft. Lauderdale, where he bought and ran a chain of boutique hotels. With the dramatic freeze in the tourism industry after the events of September 11, 2001. Michael had to reassess his […]Marcy Rosenbaumclean57:58Livelihood,Career,Pathshttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/livelihood-welcomes-michael-grimme-pivot-opportuniy-master/ROGER DUARTE: STATUS-QUO CHALLENGERhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/livelihoodshow/~3/oKQFTe1Rzuw/
http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/roger-duarte-status-quo-challenger/#respondMon, 03 Jul 2017 07:00:52 +0000Marcy Rosenbaumhttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/?p=1894When Roger Duarte (a former investment banker from Monterrey, Mexico) decided it was time to create his own Miami-based business at the age of 24, he did his research. He became interested in the South Florida stone crab market, which has been dominated by Joe’s Stone Crab for 100 years. Roger embraced the chance to […]

]]>When Roger Duarte (a former investment banker from Monterrey, Mexico) decided it was time to create his own Miami-based business at the age of 24, he did his research. He became interested in the South Florida stone crab market, which has been dominated by Joe’s Stone Crab for 100 years. Roger embraced the chance to challenge the established leader. Using a “blue ocean” strategy, he founded George Stone Crab in 2009, with the aim to offer fast, fresh delivery of stone crabs.

Roger’s entrepreneurial instinct thrives in challenging the status-quo. That instinct has quickly turned his company into the largest distributor of Florida stone crabs to Latin America. It also got Roger noticed by Forbes. In 2012, they picked him as a top entrepreneur for their annual list of “30 Under 30.” Roger’s new venture, the seafood restaurant chain My Ceviche, even hopes to dethrone sushi as your raw seafood of choice.

Roger’s hiring policy also defies conventions. He famously hires two top candidates for a position, and has them compete against each other for two weeks. The best worker gets to keep the job. Competition is ultimately about forcing entrepreneurs (and the people who work with them) to become the best version of themselves. Are you embracing the competitive nature of your business in ways that make you challenge the status quo?

]]>http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/roger-duarte-status-quo-challenger/feed/0When Roger Duarte (a former investment banker from Monterrey, Mexico) decided it was time to create his own Miami-based business at the age of 24, he did his research. He became interested in the South Florida stone crab market,When Roger Duarte (a former investment banker from Monterrey, Mexico) decided it was time to create his own Miami-based business at the age of 24, he did his research. He became interested in the South Florida stone crab market, which has been dominated by Joe’s Stone Crab for 100 years. Roger embraced the chance to […]Marcy Rosenbaumclean23:14Livelihood,Career,Pathshttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/roger-duarte-status-quo-challenger/Educational innovator Ian Welch and hiphop artist Dawyen Sekijipohttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/livelihoodshow/~3/oI4CuxSMRJk/
http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/ian-welch-dawyen-sekijipo-motivational-edge/#respondMon, 26 Jun 2017 08:00:56 +0000Marcy Rosenbaumhttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/?p=1643Where else but in Miami would a New England educational entrepreneur and a Liberian-American hip-hop artist create a perfect partnership? http://www.themotivationaledge.org/ PART 1: IAN WELCH, Educational Innovator Ian Welsh, educator and social entrepreneur, saw a need for a learning environment that embraced cultural expression. His innovative program Motivational Edge (ME) uses music and spoken word […]

PART 1: IAN WELCH, Educational Innovator

Ian Welsh, educator and social entrepreneur, saw a need for a learning environment that embraced cultural expression. His innovative program Motivational Edge (ME) uses music and spoken word as the tools for teaching math, reading and writing. He launched the program in Allapattah, a Miami melting pot community with residents from all across the Caribbean, Central America and Latin America; and Liberty City, whose history of prosperity in the 1930’s and 1940’s as a proud and successful African American neighborhood was disenfranchised when zoning and highway construction splintered and scattered the community.

How did a kid from Connecticut find the key to motivation in this Miami community?

PART 2: DAWYEN SEKIJIPO: Hip-hop Artist and Music Therapist

Dawyen Sekijipo joined the staff of Motivational Edge as a hip-hop artist in residence. He embodies the journey that many of these young people from Allapattah and Liberty City are facing. Born in Liberia, a West African nation pummeled by bitter civil wars and economic deprivation, he immigrated to the US and found opportunities for expression and acceptance through his talents in music and spoken word.

In the hip hop culture, rap is expressive poetry: a rhythmic style of chanting, presented in 16 bar measures using metaphors to convey a message. Sekijipo’s gifts as an artist and a mentor provided a nontraditional path to a career in education. Rap serves as a vehicle for reading and writing expression; DJ/MCs absorb a rhythmic mathematics through the syncopated, percussion based music mathematics.

He embodies, for the students, that you can make a living , and a life, by what you get, and what you give.

]]>http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/ian-welch-dawyen-sekijipo-motivational-edge/feed/0Where else but in Miami would a New England educational entrepreneur and a Liberian-American hip-hop artist create a perfect partnership? http://www.themotivationaledge.org/ PART 1: IAN WELCH, Educational Innovator Ian Welsh,Where else but in Miami would a New England educational entrepreneur and a Liberian-American hip-hop artist create a perfect partnership? http://www.themotivationaledge.org/ PART 1: IAN WELCH, Educational Innovator Ian Welsh, educator and social entrepreneur, saw a need for a learning environment that embraced cultural expression. His innovative program Motivational Edge (ME) uses music and spoken word […]Marcy Rosenbaumclean53:53Livelihood,Career,Pathshttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/ian-welch-dawyen-sekijipo-motivational-edge/Diana Robinson of Graebel and C.R.E.W Atlantahttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/livelihoodshow/~3/jxoZzmg9e2o/
http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/diana-robinson-graebel-c-r-e-w-atlanta/#respondMon, 12 Jun 2017 08:30:07 +0000Marcy Rosenbaumhttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/?p=1563Diana Robinson, lived in 8 places between the ages of 6 and 14 as she was growing up as a child in a military family. She’s had 18 address, so far, she says. “I am like the “Morton Salt of moving” she tells me.. “ when it rains, it pours!” Diana’s experience is not unusual […]

]]>Diana Robinson, lived in 8 places between the ages of 6 and 14 as she was growing up as a child in a military family. She’s had 18 address, so far, she says. “I am like the “Morton Salt of moving” she tells me.. “ when it rains, it pours!”

Diana’s experience is not unusual for children in military families. These “military brats”. will typically move six to nine times during a school career.

Although four out of ten Americans never leave the place in which they were born, the US Census Bureau reports that than 40 million Americans relocate each year.

Moving is the third most stressful event in life, following death and divorce, according to the Employee Relocation Council. Yet these so-called military brats are found to be resilient personalities with exceptional social skills, a high level of multicultural or international awareness, and a statistically strong affinity for careers that entail service to others.

Diana Robinson took the challenges and stresses of her childhood experiences, and turned it into a professional asset. Today, she is a specialist in business development for Graebel Atlanta Movers , and is far more than a certified office and industrial consultant: her livelihood story has as much to do with building resilience as it does with writing packing lists.

She shared the following with us:

My best pay it forward statement is, “Lift as you climb!” I once heard Johnnetta B. Cole speak, and she said her mother used to say it to her. In honor of this favorite quote, I wrote a poem for you:

Lift As You Climb
Lift as you climb, remember to reach around,
To help another up, elevate her from the ground.
Lift as you climb, and be satisfied not,
‘Til females fill the seats of every board this country’s got.
Lift as you climb, pay it forward one and all,
Be the change you dream, work with passion for your call.
Generations yet unborn will be blessed by what you’ve done,
So lift as you climb, my sisters, each one help another one.

]]>http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/diana-robinson-graebel-c-r-e-w-atlanta/feed/0Diana Robinson, lived in 8 places between the ages of 6 and 14 as she was growing up as a child in a military family. She’s had 18 address, so far, she says. “I am like the “Morton Salt of moving” she tells me.. “ when it rains, it pours!Diana Robinson, lived in 8 places between the ages of 6 and 14 as she was growing up as a child in a military family. She’s had 18 address, so far, she says. “I am like the “Morton Salt of moving” she tells me.. “ when it rains, it pours!” Diana’s experience is not unusual […]Marcy Rosenbaumclean58:51Livelihood,Career,Pathshttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/diana-robinson-graebel-c-r-e-w-atlanta/Miami International Bookfair: Author MJ Rosehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/livelihoodshow/~3/OVRgk2mfYn8/
http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/miami-international-bookfair-part-2-authors-michael-goodwin-mj-rose/#respondMon, 05 Jun 2017 08:30:56 +0000Marcy Rosenbaumhttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/?p=1054Our guest is PR expert MJ Rose, who left advertising to become a novelist– only to find that the key to her success as as a successful writer would draw upon the corporate skills she thought she was leaving behind. Have you ever been blown off with the criticism “That’s not how we do things […]

Our guest is PR expert MJ Rose, who left advertising to become a novelist– only to find that the key to her success as as a successful writer would draw upon the corporate skills she thought she was leaving behind.

Have you ever been blown off with the criticism “That’s not how we do things around here!.” The ability to know when to use commonly accepted wisdom, and when best practices from other environments can provide a breath of fresh air, is the essence of successful innovation. These thoughts fall in line with MJ Rose’ marketing philosophy.

]]>http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/miami-international-bookfair-part-2-authors-michael-goodwin-mj-rose/feed/0Our guest is PR expert MJ Rose, who left advertising to become a novelist– only to find that the key to her success as as a successful writer would draw upon the corporate skills she thought she was leaving behind.Our guest is PR expert MJ Rose, who left advertising to become a novelist– only to find that the key to her success as as a successful writer would draw upon the corporate skills she thought she was leaving behind. Have you ever been blown off with the criticism “That’s not how we do things […]Marcy Rosenbaumclean29:54Livelihood,Career,Pathshttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/miami-international-bookfair-part-2-authors-michael-goodwin-mj-rose/WILLY WALKER: REAL-WORLD RISK-TAKERhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/livelihoodshow/~3/1pazpww5B4o/
http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/willy-walker-real-world-risk-taker/#respondMon, 29 May 2017 11:59:41 +0000Marcy Rosenbaumhttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/?p=1832William “Willy” Walker is the chairman, president and CEO of Walker & Dunlop, a 76-year-old company that is the tenth largest commercial mortgage lender in the United States. The company was co-founded by his grandfather in 1937. For most people, joining the family business right after college would have been the automatic choice. But when […]

]]>William “Willy” Walker is the chairman, president and CEO of Walker & Dunlop, a 76-year-old company that is the tenth largest commercial mortgage lender in the United States. The company was co-founded by his grandfather in 1937. For most people, joining the family business right after college would have been the automatic choice. But when Willy received his MBA from Harvard, he took a daring, unexpected detour.

In true entrepreneurial fashion, Willy by-passed apprenticeship, refused great offers from several top American firms, and instead flew south: first to Chile to work for a venture capital firm, then to Argentina, where he drafted a plan for a startup airline – knowing very little about aviation. The advice given to him by a mentor was a guiding principle: “Accumulate as many scars as quickly as possible.”

In conversation with ENTREPRENEURradio, Willy illustrates the advantages of taking risks and confronting failure early on. His experiences in South America (where cultural differences sometimes led him into tough spots) taught him how to balance his idealism with the realities of being out in the field. He says: “You need to be prepared to accept failure, and you need to understand that this is a marathon, not a sprint. Put your head down and keep pushing forward.”

The ability to push forward served him well when, after more than ten years in Latin America Europe, he returned to Washington to lead Walker & Dunlop through the difficult 2008 real estate crisis. The risks he took- and the triumphs he achieved- earned him the 2011 Ernst and Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” award for his category in the Washington area. How willing are you to take risks as you navigate the realities of business? Download this podcast at ENTREPRENEURradio.org for more.

]]>http://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/willy-walker-real-world-risk-taker/feed/0William “Willy” Walker is the chairman, president and CEO of Walker & Dunlop, a 76-year-old company that is the tenth largest commercial mortgage lender in the United States. The company was co-founded by his grandfather in 1937. For most people,William “Willy” Walker is the chairman, president and CEO of Walker & Dunlop, a 76-year-old company that is the tenth largest commercial mortgage lender in the United States. The company was co-founded by his grandfather in 1937. For most people, joining the family business right after college would have been the automatic choice. But when […]Marcy Rosenbaumclean56:44Livelihood,Career,Pathshttp://www.livelihoodshow.com/podcast/willy-walker-real-world-risk-taker/Marcy RosenbaumMarcy RosenbaumnonadultCreating what’s next on your personal career path